Alas, I still await the final work on indexing St. Louis No. 2, in the meantime I have had the pleasure of attending a lecture on the Irish in New Orleans during the yellow fever epidemic (specifically in 1853). Speaking was Dr. Laura Kelly of Tulane, Sponsored by Save Our Cemeteries. Needless to say, several SOC members were excited to find that St. Alphonsus (where the lecture was held) had maps of St. Joseph and St. Patrick. When I inquired about where the church had acquired the maps, an SOC Board member was already on it. He was able to establish that these maps are held in the Manuscript collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection. I will be in touch with him regarding when I can get my little hands on a copy. Finally, another step into the direction of navigating the New Orleans cemeteries. As soon as I have them, I intend to post them on my website. How exciting!! Use them. They are a boon!
I'll be writing shortly on Dr. Laura's lecture. It was fantastic!
Hi Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteBecause I've enjoyed your blog so far, and I hope you'll find time to write more (selfishly--I have NOLA ancestors, too), I am awarding you the "Kreativ Blogger" badge.
You can find out more & pick up the badge at my blog here:
http://mybigfatfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-which-i-am-awarded-kreativ-blogger.html
A bientot,
Liz
p.s. Someone on the LA-Orleans Rootsweb mailing list has mentioned having a map of one of the St. Louis cemeteries. Try searching their archives when you have time.